<B>Col Richardson:</B> Vlence agast gay people is still rife, but the law and police attus are beg transformed.
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CEL, ANTI-ENGLISH AND ALMOST CERTALY GAY: MEET THE REAL RICHARD THE LNHEART
* richard gay barrister *
Historil ntextUnlike the first woman or the first BAME barrister admted to the Bar, there will never be a rerd of the first gay man or woman, the first bisexual or the first trans person to be lled by the Inn. Of urse, that’s not to say their nam are not ntaed our archiv: LGBTQ+ people have always existed and, arguably, jt as London has always been a queer cy (to quote Peter Ackroyd’s Queer Cy: Gay London om the Romans to the prent day (Chatto & Wd, 2017)) so ed have the hallowed grounds of the Temple. In their effemate rol, the men would later bee associated wh the French word ‘gai’ (cheerful), which overtime gave the term ‘gay’ that we know and have embraced today.
Que what the alleged victim thought would happen when he weled his would-be attacker ‘to the same box’ we n only some gay men of the Inn prumably had fun of an eveng, the Temple district was also an area which some of the worst persecutn of LGBTQ+ dividuals was displayed for all to see.